Hard problems, worthy work.
Voice, vision, identity and agentic systems, built for the realities of this continent and run with the seriousness it deserves. That takes people with something to prove and somewhere real to prove it.
The culture is the operating system
See clearly
Sit with reality long enough to actually see it, then build from what you saw. Seeing clearly is expensive; we pay it anyway.
Build for the ground
Work is judged by how it holds up in the field: real networks, real devices, real conditions. If the demo only works when the phone is still, it is a demo.
Purpose, tenacity, thoughtfulness
The three words we hire for and hold each other to. There were years when the harder question was whether to keep going. We kept going.
A culture that gets out of the way
Hire well, then remove the friction. Serious people do their best work when nothing stands between them and the problem.
We hire deliberately, and often before the listing exists
There are no posted roles right now. That has never stopped the right person: if you are serious about machine learning for African realities, introduce yourself and tell us what you want to build. Write to contact@tegence.com with something you have made.